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Show WHY MISLEAD FARMER AND WORKINGMAN When our present tariff system was framed, between forty and fifty fif-ty of the principal agricultural organizations or-ganizations of the country were represented rep-resented at the hearings before the ways and' means committee. They succeeded in carrying all their points with the result that practically every thing the farmer buys for use on his farm was placed on the free list , j and everything the farmer raises for sale was put on the protected list. Tn spile of all the political talk to the contrary, it is safe to say that the general opinion of the informed farmer is, that our present tariff law is as nearly perfect from the point of view of the farmer as it is possible possi-ble to make it. To open the flood gates of Europe, and the Orient and abolish the tariff tar-iff on wheat and other cereals, wool, bulter, eggs, cheese, citrus fruits, fugar and a hundred other things that the farmer raises which are not.' protected, would be a calamity for the farmer just as he is beginning to get on his feet. A blow at the tariff protection to American industry is a blow at the factory worker, whlcn in turn is a blow at the farmer, because American Ameri-can workmen comprise the biggest market for American farm product The sooner the pubhc the ni, man, and the runner real, e he.e homely facts, the sooner H , h; tariff question be taken out of. ,,!,,;,, and considered purel as scientific business problem. , |